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Not all Nigerians want ‘one of the thieves’ to win in 2019, Sowore mocks Atiku, Buhari

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The Presidential Candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has mocked the campaign plans of President Muhammad Buhari of the APC and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, describing it as a choice between failed participants in Nigerian’s democratic history.

Sowore spoke while addressing supporters at a town hall meeting at the Christ international community church, Ohio, United States.

He also berated Nigerians who have supported the two presidential candidates ahead of the 2019 elections.

“They do not want a leader who can take Nigeria to glory. They want one of the thieves but this is not the situation with all of our people”.

“Nigerians want a better option, they want someone who can take Nigeria and make it climb out of poverty, hopelessness, depression economically and politically over this years”.

Using Biblical analogy, he added, “we have a Barabbas situation on our hands where there is a young man who did what is right for 19 years and there are two old men who did what is wrong for their entire life and people are being asked to choose and some of our people are saying they want Barabbas on the left and on the right.

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He further warned Nigerians not to be distracted by “fake promises and documents which will be used by some candidates to deceive unsuspecting Nigerian.”

On the candidate of the APC, Gen Muhamad Buhari, Sowore said, “They did an event and launched what they called Next Level, but Nigerians are very creative people who can see through all that, they have already done a lot of cartoons which shows President Buhari Blindfolded and his followers following to fall over a cliff and they said that is the Next Level.”

On Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, he said, “They said the same thing about Atiku with a cartoon where everyone following him was holding on to their wallets, you know what that means”.

He blamed the two presidential aspirants for causing the pains and sorrow being faced by Nigerians.

“Those who are positioning themselves to lead Nigerians today are the same people who caused Nigerians pains and sorrow that Nigeria is in today” he said.

He urged Nigerians to “do the right thing by freeing yourselves of your oppressors who have no fresh ideas or capacity to solve Nigeria’s problems which they created”.

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